Creating & living a truly authentic life, living in "Our Little House In The Big Woods". Raising many children, working in the arts, writing, film making, learning to create quilts, painting, exploring gardening, traveling, restoring a vintage dollhouse, hunting for antique treasures & chasing our big dream to live by the sea, all on a thrifty, frugal budget.

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June 25, 2015

Yesterday was Possession Day & we received confirmation that our house was complete. We knew we wouldn't get the keys as the final inspection wasn't able to be scheduled until 4 p.m. Today, our apartment in the lower level will have a separate inspection by our County, then funds have to be delivered between lawyers & then we do our final walk through with our builder. Receiving our keys could happen later today & everyone behind the scenes is hoping to make that happen. But if it doesn't, if there is a delay, we know that "gotcha day" will be tomorrow for sure. I have to head into work for a bit this morning, then I'll be meeting our banker at lunchtime, then I have a bit of free time until I have to meet a family for counselling, then it's pick up daughter time, have some dinner then we're off to our theatre rehearsal ~ first show is in 2 short weeks! Today would be grand but tomorrow would probably be more realistic. Our moving company is set for tomorrow morning, so even if we got the keys today, we wouldn't be moving until the morning anyway. No complaints here at all.

Officially tonight is our last night sleeping in our current home. We've been here for 24 years & though we've been planning this venture for the last 14 when we bought our little piece of heaven, we knew when this day came, we'd have some tears for sure. Such a beautiful house, a lovely neighborhood, close to everything. But nothing can beat the chance to live in the country, in a quiet & scenic setting. A new adventure, but we are thankful for the memories we've created here. Sad & happy at the same time.

June 15, 2015

Don't they look lovely & functional together? We thought so & love what we chose. However, the plumber is refusing to install said sink & faucet, claiming that the sink is round & the faucet is "too square" so it won't fit. And the sink won't work as it's not "big enough" for me to do laundry. To be fair, we have no intention of using it as a laundry room sink. I plan to use it as my gardening sink. But didn't share that with anyone, except my dh, as I didn't know that it was relevant to anyone else except me. So now we have another delay, as the plumber holds firm to his frustration with what we chose & I hold firm to my intent on having what we want in our new home. The adventure continues!

*Saving for ~ our holiday to our tiny island in October. We need to set aside $110 a week to make that budget. We already started & dh is expecting a cheque soon in the mail for $1,000. Our goal should be no problem to achieve.

*Watching ~ a house reno show, kind of.

*Listening to ~ the birds making lots of noise outside.

*Hoping for ~ an note tomorrow with our possession date.

*Learning ~ to let the universe bring forward the things that need to fall in to place & to trust again.